Emails from both the NRCC and DCCC attacking their top targets in the 2012 election cycle having been arriving in my in-box with increasingly regularity. A whole slew of them arrived today from both congressional campaign committees.

The Democrats slammed five House GOP freshmen – Ann Marie Buerkle, Nan Hayworth, Richard Hanna, Tom Reed, and Chris Gibson – accusing them of choosingto support “extremism and (the) ultra wealthy over (the) middle class and creating jobs” during their first full year in office.

The Republicans sent out two different emails. The first accused Reps. Bill Owens and Tim Bishop of being posied to receive thousands of dollars in “tainted” money from the DCCC, thanks to their inclusion in the so-called “frontline” program for members expected to have tough re-election bids this fall.

The DCCC accepted more than $130,000 from former NJ Senator/Governor Jon Corzine, who’s now under fire for his role in the collapse of the commodity brokerage he used to head, MF Global.

The other GOP email targets Rep. Louise Slaughter, asking whether the Rochester-area Democrat will urge President Obama to approve the controversial Keystone pipeline or send the jobs supporters say it will create to China.

“Louise Slaughter and her fellow Democrats have a simple choice to either give the okay for an estimated 130,000 jobs for Americans associated with the Keystone XL pipeline project or bend to pressure from radical anti-energy activists and let the waiting Chinese companies take those jobs overseas,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay.

“Slaughter’s silence is helping President Obama provide political payback to her party’s activist base while punishing American workers looking for job creation.”

The Keystone XL pipeline, as you’ll recall, was a big sticking point in the pre-Christmas battle over the payroll tax extension. The two month fix that temporarily settled that fight included a provision requiring the president to make a decision on the pipeline within 60 days.

In hopes of keeping the pressure on the president, House Republicans this week unveiled a countdown clock that shows the number of days remaining before he has to act on Keystone.

What’s interesting in the NRCC’s email for our purposes here in New York is it’s the first time Slaughter has been in the GOP crosshairs, although the committee did send out an “ICYMI” alert after the Buffalo News ran a story highlighting how many votes she had missed.

There has been speculation that Slaughter, who turned 82 this past summer, will not seek a 14th term this fall. But she has insisted she intends to run, despite the fact that her district could be significantly altered – or even eradicated, forcing her into a fight against one of her adjacent colleagues – when state lawmakers finally get around to redrawing the congressional lines.

Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks has been mentioned as a potential GOP challenger to Slaughter, depending on what the new district looks like.

UPDATE: Now there’s a second email – two in one day! – targeting Slaughter for a little-known provision in the health care reform law that takes effect this year and adds a new fee to health insurance plans for research to find out which drugs, medical procedures, tests and treatments work best.

“While Louise Slaughter tries to claim she doesn’t want to raise taxes on middle-class families in Western New York, the truth is her government takeover of healthcare is already costing them more out-of-pocket,” NRCC spokesman Nat Sillin said.

“Slaughter doesn’t understand that families are already struggling to pay their insurance premiums and cannot afford to fund her government takeover experiment.”

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